[3] Davis Entertainment produces projects for all major studios, broadcast networks, and streaming companies.
Upcoming Davis Entertainment releases include the Lionsgate’s “Flight Risk,” starring Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Dockery, and Topher Grace; Focus Features’ “Song Sung Blue,” starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson; Amazon Studios’ “The Pickup,” starring Eddie Murphy, Pete Davidson, and Keke Palmer; Paramount Pictures’ “Vertigo,” produced alongside Robert Downey Jr.’s Team Downey banner; Universal Pictures’ “Blood Runs Coal,” an adaption of Mark A. Bradley’s book of the same name and starring Academy Award winner Cillian Murphy; and Sony’s “On Your Feet!,” a feature adaptation of the Broadway musical telling the story of Emilio and Gloria Estefan, written and directed by Lissette Feliciano.
Upcoming television projects also include the half-hour Peacock comedy “Laid” starring and Executive Produced by Academy Award nominee Stephanie Hsu, and created by Nahnatchka Khan; “Rear Window,” a reimagining of the Alfred Hitchcock classic, also for Peacock; and Lifetime’s “Mary J. Blige’s Family Affair,” (working title), starring Ajiona Alexus and Da’Vinchi and Executive Produced by Mary J. Blige.
Davis’s recent productions include the Netflix film “Uglies,” starring Joey King and directed by McG, which also reached number one on Netflix and was watched by 67 million people; Sony Pictures’ “Harold and the Purple Crayon,” which starred Zachary Levi and Zooey Deschanel; Predator origin movie “Prey,” directed by Dan Trachtenberg for 20th Century Studios and Hulu.
Other Davis movies include Jaume Collet-Serra’s “Jungle Cruise,” starring Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt, based on the Disney ride; “Dolemite Is My Name”, the Eddie Murphy starrer which was nominated for Best Comedy at the 77th Golden Globe Awards and won the Critics Choice Award for Best Comedy; the action comedy “Game Night,” starring Jason Bateman, Rachel McAdams and Kyle Chandler; the Oscar-nominated biopic “Joy,” starring Jennifer Lawrence; the $100 million-plus-grossing micro-budgeted sci-fi thriller “Chronicle”; and the animated film “Ferdinand,” which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
Past movies produced by Davis include his first movie, the first Predator film with Arnold Schwarzenegger that spawned the franchise, Grumpy Old Men, and Grumpier Old Men with Walter Matthau and Jack Lennon, The Firm with Tom Cruise, Courage Under Fire with Denzel Washington, I, Robot with Will Smith, Waterworld with Kevin Costner, Dr. Dolittle and Dr. Dolittle 2 with Eddie Murphy, and the hit micro-budget movie Chronicle.